Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said they launched an attack targeting an American air base, which they say was the source of US strikes on Iranian targets early Thursday local time, state-linked Iranian media reported.
The IRGC did not specify which air base it targeted. The US has air bases in a number of nations in the Middle East region.
“Following the aggression carried out at dawn today by the invading US military against a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport using aerial projectiles, the American air base identified as the source of the attack was targeted at 4:50 a.m.,” Fars News Agency reported, citing a statement from the IRGC’s public relations office.
The IRGC said its response was “a serious warning” to the US, saying its “aggression will not go unanswered.”
Around the same time Iran said the attack was launched, Kuwait’s Army reported its air defences were intercepting “hostile” drones and missiles, though it did not state the origin of the attacks.
In the early hours of Thursday morning local time, three explosions were heard to the east of Bandar Abbas, a strategic Iranian port city and naval base near the Strait of Hormuz.
A US official confirmed the US military had shot down four Iranian drones and struck an Iranian ground control station in Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a fifth drone. (CNN)